盂

See also: 孟

盂 U+76C2, 盂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76C2 ← 盁 [U+76C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 盃 → [U+76C3]

Translingual

Han character

盂 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+3, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 一木月廿 (MDBT), four-corner 1010₇, composition ⿱于皿)

Derived characters

• 䣿

Additional derived characters

• 𲕁, 𬫢, 𬐟, 𦱃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 792, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22949
• Dae Jaweon: page 1207, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2557, character 6
• Unihan data for U+76C2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		盂
alternative forms		𥁄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
侉	*qaːls
夸	*kʰʷraː
姱	*kʰʷraː
胯	*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨	*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇	*kʰʷraː
垮	*kʰʷraːʔ
銙	*kʰʷraːʔ
骻	*kʰʷraːʔ
咵	*kʰʷraːʔ
釫	*ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦	*ɡʷraːs
鮬	*pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀	*qʰʷl'aː
扝	*kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳	*kʰʷaː
郀	*kʰʷaː
挎	*kʰʷaː
袴	*kʰʷaːs
絝	*kʰʷaːs
褲	*kʰʷaːs
恗	*qʰaː
洿	*ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠	*ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠	*ɢʷlaːʔ
污	*qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇	*qʷaː
圬	*qʷaː
鴮	*qʷaː
盓	*qʷaː
汙	*qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗	*qʰʷl'a
摴	*qʰʷl'a
荂	*pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩	*qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁	*qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱	*qʰʷa
訏	*qʰʷa
扜	*qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴	*qʰʷa
冔	*qʰʷaʔ
紆	*qʷa
陓	*qʷa
迂	*qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶	*qʷa
于	*ɢʷa
盂	*ɢʷa
竽	*ɢʷa
邘	*ɢʷa
玗	*ɢʷa
芋	*ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅	*ɢʷa
釪	*ɢʷa
骬	*ɢʷa
謣	*ɢʷla
宇	*ɢʷaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢʷa): phonetic 于 (OC *ɢʷa) + semantic 皿 (“dish; vessel”)

Etymology

Related to Tibetan ཝ (wa, “gutter”) by Schuessler (2024).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): uò
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): û / î / ô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u¹ / hu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúr
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-ʼrh
    • Yale: yúr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuel
    • Palladius: юйр (jujr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yə̯ɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uò
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uo⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: û
    • Tâi-lô: û
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uu
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /u²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
    • Tâi-lô: î
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ii
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Changtai)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ô͘
    • Tâi-lô: ôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oo
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ɔ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Changtai): /eu²⁴/

Note:

• û - literary (incl. surname);
• ô͘ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: u¹ / hu⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: u / hû
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³³/, /hu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: hju

Rime
Character	盂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羽俱切
Baxter	hju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦio/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuə̆/
Li Rong	/ɣio/
Wang Li	/ɣĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ hju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a/
English	a formation of a hunting party
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盂
Reading #	1/1
No.	15707
Phonetic component	于
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	于
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷa/

Definitions

盂

1. broad-mouthed receptacle for holding liquids and foods
2. (historical) name of a hunting formation
3. (～縣) Yu County, Yuxian (a county of Yangquan, Shanxi, China)
4. a surname

Compounds

• 唾盂 (tuòyú)
• 水盂
• 漱盂
• 痰盂 (tányú)
• 盂方水方
• 盂蘭會 / 盂兰会
• 盂蘭盆 / 盂兰盆 (yúlánpén)
• 盂蘭盆會 / 盂兰盆会 (Yúlánpénhuì)
• 盂蘭節 / 盂兰节 (yúlánjié)
• 盎盂相敲
• 盎盂相繫 / 盎盂相系
• 盤盂 / 盘盂
• 缽盂 / 钵盂 (bōyú)
• 缽盂頭 / 钵盂头
• 腎盂 / 肾盂 (shènyú)
• 腎盂炎 / 肾盂炎
• 覆盂
• 覆盂之固
• 覆盂之安

Japanese

Kanji

盂

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bowl (container for foods and liquids)
2. Used in transliteration of Sanskrit terms.

   盂蘭盆 ― urabon ― ullambana (note: this term is taken by many Japanese sources to represent Sanskrit, but this particular term is from Pali.)

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: う (u)
• Kun: はち (hachi, 盂)、わん (wan, 盂)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
盂
はち Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 盂 – see the following entry.

【鉢はち】S [noun] flower pot [noun] bowl, basin, pot, skull Alternative spelling 椀

(This term, 盂, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
盂
わん Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 盂 – see the following entry.

【碗わん】J [noun] bowl [counter] counter for bowls of food or drink Alternative spelling 椀

(This term, 盂, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

References

• “^▲盂”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

盂 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盂: Hán Việt readings: vu
盂: Nôm readings: vu, vò

1. chữ Hán form of vu (“cup”)
2. chữ Nôm form of vò (“jar”)